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nice link
by Hans Hagen 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

handy for info about languages and so ... http://www.wolframalpha.com/ you can also key in formulas ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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asymptote support
by Mojca Miklavec 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hello, Just to let you know - thanks to John Bowman (Michail Vidiassov is also working on it) these are some latest posts from asymptote developers on their forum - if anyone would like to play with asymptote, feel free to test. I didn't take a look, but John Bowman says that he needed null.tex to get context into interactive mode for some reason. Any clue about that? Mojca PS: I really really have to avoid the temptation to get distracted in the next few days/weeks unless I find an excuse that I need to make 3D/movies for my reports (which is not so unlikely to happen after all :) I have converted asycolors.sty; if anyone wants to take a look at asymptote.sty feel free to take it over. I might come back to it, but not right now. My quick first impression is that it does something similar to t-gnuplot, t-r, t-vim, t-lilypond, etc., that is: it defines some high-level commands, writes a file, lets asymptote process it and then includes the resulting graphic back. PPS: Recent Asymptote logs say "Updates to facilitate TeXLive builds." Sounds promissing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Good news: After digesting the advice /.../, I have been able to implement full support for a context tex engine in 2D. First of all, with TeXLive 2008 it is necessary to configure both lua and context: luatools --generate context --make We also rely on the empty tex file misc/null.tex. Hopefully everyone has that. We use this to get into context interactive mode, for the tex pipe (phase 1 of Asymptote's 2-phase typesetting system): context misc/null This was a crucial trick that I did not see documented anywhere. I didn't like the need for the \hbox but I too could not find a way around this; it seems that context takes liberties with the vertical spacing (glue?) otherwise, in a seemingly unpredictable manner. I was able to work around the one problem that I could forsee, with \eject (newpage() in asy, for multipage output). Everything appears to be working: label clipping, minipage, and even functionshading. This was the benefit of using specials; once the high-level code was in place, all of the low-level support was ready to go. The only thing that I haven't tested is inlinetex mode with the context tex engine. Could someone please test this for me? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I checked that -inlinetex -tex context appears to be generating the right files. Now all that needs to be done is for someone familiar with context to port asymptote.sty to a context module. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I forgot to mention that context support is committed to svn and will be in 1.74 release (likely tomorrow). Regarding fonts, one can either use the low-level TeX \font way using fontcommand or, as the following contextfonts.asy example illustrates, the high-level way (see the definition of font in plain_pens.asy): settings.tex="context"; texpreamble("\usetypescript[iwona][ec]"); texpreamble("\usetypescript[antykwa-torunska][t5]"); label("$A$",0,N,font("iwona")); label("$A$",0,S,font("antykwa")+red); ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Cannot run Lilypond
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hello, I gave a try to LiliPond today, but it doesn't work for me. 1) I've installed LilyPond 2.12.2 on Windows 2) Ran a simple example \usemodule[lilypond] \starttext There are some notes \lilypond{ \relative{bes a c b} } embedded in this line. \stoptext 3) And got dummy image What's wrong? Details are attached. Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] Installation problem (was Updates without rsync)
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

>> All I've got to do now is get Scite working again :-( > Why not Emacs :) It's also quite nice for ConTeXt. > > P. I used Emacs when I was young and idealistic, but over the years all those keyboard commands have been beaten out of me and it's beyond me now ;-) I did try it again recently in a flood of nostalgia, but I just couldn't get to grips with it again. Scite is okay, and hitting F7 to build a document is handy. It's missing a few features, though, which would make it great e.g. a user-configurable toolbar, so that we could add toolbar icons for ConTeXt commands (I'm always forgetting the order of options and a button which inserted a \placefigure command with reminders would be fantastic). Anyway, that's a bit off topic. Regards, Richard Converteam UK Ltd. Registration Number: 5571739 and Converteam Ltd. Registration Number: 2416188 Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: Boughton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1BU. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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beta (2009-06-01): footnote marker not moved
by Peter Rolf 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hi, this is still not fixed. In mkiv the marker (asterisk) is not moved with it's corresponding footnote text. Best wishes, Peter \def\NoteNumber#1{\hbox to 15pt{\hfill\black #1}} \setupfootnotes [bodyfont=6pt, textcolor=black, before=,after=, rule=off, numberconversion={set 2}, % distance=-2em, margindistance=-2em, numbercommand=\NoteNumber] \def\MyFootnote#1{\footnote{\hskip3em #1}} \starttext \startlocalfootnotes \vbox\bgroup\hsize=78mm\dontcomplain \startitemize[4] \item die Ausgabe erfolgt als PDF/X-4p\MyFootnote{ISO 15930-7:2008} \stopitemize \egroup \stoplocalfootnotes % footnote marker is not moved! \moveright70mm\hbox{\placelocalfootnotes} \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] Installation problem (was Updates without rsync)
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

> I wanted to get a clean, up-to-date installation of Context on Windows > (without using rsync), so started from scratch as follows: > > 1. Downloaded > http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/minimals-snapshot-mswin.zip > 2. Unzipped to C:\Tools\context > 3. Renamed C:\Tools\context\texmf-context to texmf-context-old > 4. Downloaded cont-tmf.zip and unzipped contents to > c:\Tools\context\texmf-context > 3. From command window, ran: > cd \Tools\context > setuptex mktexlsr luatools --generate luatools > --selfupdate mtxrun --selfupdate texexec --make context > --make > 4. To generate new pdf, ran: context testdoc.tex > > Everything seemed to execute without errors until the last step which > returned: > > MtxRun | loading configuration for C:/Tools/context/texmf/web2c from > C:/Tools/context/texmf-cache/luatex- > cache/context/b7bcb6722e1fe509b85ff004c33e8274/trees/90e2367b37b32bcc25e442581c9e72e2 > MtxRun | run 1: luatex > --fmt="C:/Tools/context/texmf-cache/luatex- > cache/context/b7bcb6722e1fe509b85ff004c33e8274/formats/cont-en" > > --lua="C:/Tools/context/texmf-cache/luatex- > cache/context/b7bcb6722e1fe509b85ff004c33e8274/formats/cont-en.lua" > "./testdoc.tex" > luatex.exe: > C:/Tools/context/texmf-cache/luatex- > cache/context/b7bcb6722e1fe509b85ff004c33e8274/formats/cont-en.fmt: > No such file or directory > MtxRun | fatal error, code: 1 > > Looking at the source directory, a file "testdoc.top" has been created but > nothing else. > > Can someone please point me towards a next step? > > Thanks, > > Richard > > P.S. I tried copying cont-en.fmt from > "C:\Tools\context\texmf-mswin\web2c\luatex\pdftex" to the cache directory > but got "Fatal format file error, I'm stymied". I was trying various things and downloaded the beta version of cont-tmf.zip (from http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-2.htm ) instead of the current version and it all works, hooray! Thank-you, everyone, for your help. I'm so pleased to be able to use MKIV now for the first time - it even gives me Helvetica when I ask for it. All I've got to do now is get Scite working again :-( Thanks, Richard Converteam UK Ltd. Registration Number: 5571739 and Converteam Ltd. Registration Number: 2416188 Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: Boughton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1BU. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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luatex examples - Traversing TeX nodes
by Piotr Kopszak 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Hello, I am trying to compile luatex examples from http://luatex.bluwiki.com . How could I make it work with ConTeXt? The following fails. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \directlua0{ local glyph = node.id('glyph') local hlist = node.id('hlist') local vlist = node.id('vlist') function gothru(h,prof) for t in node.traverse(h) do texio.write_nl(string.rep("...",prof) .. 'NODE type=' .. node.type(t.id) .. ' subtype=' .. t.subtype ) if t.id == hlist or t.id == vlist then texio.write(' w=' .. t.width .. ' h=' .. t.height .. ' d=' .. t.depth .. ' s=' .. t.shift ) gothru(t.list,prof+1) end if t.id == glyph then texio.write(' font=' .. t.font .. ' char=' .. t.char .. ' width=' font.fonts[t.font].characters[t.char]['width']) end end end callback.register('pre_linebreak_filter', function(h) gothru(h,0) return true end ) } \starttext bla bla bla bla \stoptext ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- best Piotr -- http://okle.pl

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MkIV italic correction?
by Corsair 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Hi all, Does MkIV support italic correction? Because the following code produces two identical "f)"s \starttext {\it f}) {\it f\/}) \stoptext -- There is no emotion; there is peace. There is no ignorance; there is knowledge. There is no passion; there is serenity. There is no death; there is the Force.

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Landscape printing
by Roger Mason 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Hello, I made a document that needs to be printed in landscape orientation on letter paper. I have this in the document: \setuppapersize[letter,landscape][letter,landscape] It looks fine in xpdf, but when I print the page has a very wide left margin and the last column of my table is off the right edge of the page. I'm using this print command: lpr -Plj5l -o landscape <filename> I also tried printing from within xpdf, with the same command and the same result. Thanks for any help. Roger

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Re: [NTG-context] Installation problem (was Updates without rsync)
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:56, <richard.stephens(a)converteam.com> wrote: > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I wanted to get a clean, up-to-date installation of Context on Windows > > (without using rsync), so started from scratch as follows: > > > > 1. Downloaded > > http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/minimals-snapshot-mswin.zip > > 2. Unzipped to C:\Tools\context > > 3. Renamed C:\Tools\context\texmf-context to texmf-context-old > > 4. Downloaded cont-tmf.zip and unzipped contents to > > c:\Tools\context\texmf-context > > 3. From command window, ran: > > cd \Tools\context > > setuptex mktexlsr luatools --generate luatools > > --selfupdate mtxrun --selfupdate texexec --make context > > --make > > 4. To generate new pdf, ran: context testdoc.tex > > > > Everything seemed to execute without errors until the last step which > > returned: > > Can you try to run "luatools --generate" once more after "context --make"? > > Mojca I tried that - same problem. > Do you downloaded the current or the beta version, the current is > > http://pragma-ade.nl/download-1.htm > > and the beta is > > http://pragma-ade.nl/download-2.htm > > Wolfgang The current version (2008.10.31 13:58 according to "context --version") Richard Converteam UK Ltd. Registration Number: 5571739 and Converteam Ltd. Registration Number: 2416188 Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: Boughton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1BU. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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